A Decade of Debt (Poverty by Design seminar series)
Date
Wednesday 28 August 2024
Time
5:30-6:30pm
Location
Online and Government Buildings lecture theatre 1 Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Organised by
Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Cost
Free
This webinar from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies presents an overview of how a change in settings in 2014 has turned Work and Income's systems into a conveyor belt for private debt collection at scale.
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Poverty, by Design: The systems that hold families in poverty, and what needs to change, Seminar Series
Presenter: Jake Lilley
Chair: Sue Moroney, CEO, Community Law Centres O Aotearoa
Financial mentors across Aotearoa continue to see whānau stuck with private and government debt deductions off their benefits which leaves them without money for the essentials. Jake will provide an overview of how a change in settings in 2014 has turned Work and Income’s systems into a conveyor belt for private debt collection at scale. He will also detail how benefit incomes are being undermined by the creation and collection of debt to government along with FinCap’s recommendations for ceasing these drivers of poverty.
Jake is a senior policy advisor at FinCap, specialising in consumer protection and working with a network of more than 800 financial mentors across Aotearoa. He has been a member of the Responsible Lending Code Advisory Group, a member of the Energy Hardship Reference Group and previously worked at the Consumer Action Law Centre in Australia.
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